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Subject: Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive
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From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl>
To: rk47 <rk@nanoteq.co.za>
Subject: Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:13:32 +0100

>
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:37:39 +0200, rk47 <rk@nanoteq.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Hi FreeBSD'ers
>>
>> I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all 
>> gave
>> the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox
>> motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS.
>>
>> When I install FreeBSD from CD it displays a warning stating that my 
>> disk
>> Geometry of 155061/16/63 is not correct and that it will use a more 
>> likely
>> setting (which turns out to be 9729/255/63 in the FDisk menu).
>
> Let the BIOS probe for IDE devices, and thus it will probe for the proper
> geometry. Write down the cylinders/head/sectors and insert it when you're
> in the FDISK section of the installation.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Jorn